General cigar questions

[Socoemt]

Thank you all for the great advice and suggestions! I would love to join the newbie trade, but we'll have to wait until I get my next paycheck.

So far I have just been using a bic lighter and it hasn't been bad, I just want sure if I was missing something obvious about lighting up.

Btw, what is it with some of you and ghurkas? Lol!

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[stonecutter2]

Thank you all for the great advice and suggestions! I would love to join the newbie trade, but we'll have to wait until I get my next paycheck.

So far I have just been using a bic lighter and it hasn't been bad, I just want sure if I was missing something obvious about lighting up.

Btw, what is it with some of you and ghurkas? Lol!

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I've had some Gurkhas that were okay, but I prefer to buy from companies that don't mislead their customers by creating trumped up suggested retail prices like $100 per cigar, but buy now because they're only $4 each.

Gurkha was founded to be sold in a duty free shop as an "Ultra premium" cigar. Something different among a sea of cigar manufacturers by going all out with boxes or labels, or hyped up stories. They spend a lot more worrying about the packaging and promoting/hype of a cigar than some of their blends and the quality of their tobacco.

To each their own - if someone loves the taste of a Gurkha, awesome. I've come to think that they're the PT Barnum of cigars, myself. Unless some Beauty bundles are on sale...I had one of those burn for almost 3 hours, i kid you not. Tasted good enough while out on the family land.